I have to concur with this opinion. I have one of the credo accounts. While I find it useful fact checking from time to time, there is simply not enough content to write anything resembling a comprehensive article on any topic I regularly edit. Its primary value is for basic fact checking and lookup, which would be helpful to content reviewers, but not really to article builders. We had this discussion on-site here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Credo_accounts#Usage
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Fred Bauder fredbaud@fairpoint.netwrote:
--------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Access to academic journals (was Re: Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser) From: "Andreas Kolbe" jayen466@yahoo.com Date: Tue, March 15, 2011 6:32 am To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List"
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--- On Tue, 15/3/11, David Goodman dggenwp@gmail.com wrote:
From: David Goodman dggenwp@gmail.com
I've been involved with open access journals as a professional activity from the start of the movement, long before I joined Wikipedia. There has been only limited success. Though there are almost ten thousand open access journals, 95% of them are either very small or very unimportant, and in almost all fields of study, none or almost none of the important journals are open access:
This is my experience too; thanks for pointing it out.
No important journals at all in chemistry are open access, Almost none in physics Almost none in geology Almost none in ecology & evolution A few in molecular & cell biology A few only in biomedical sciences None in psychology Almost none in the social sciences or the humanities Almost none in engineering and applied science A few in medicine
<snip> > At this point, there is no academic field of study > whatsoever where an > adequate article could be written using only open access > material. > This is of course a very limiting thing for access to > information not > just for us, but for the world in general, and the WMF > projects should > certainly cooperate as closely as possible with the > forces working > for open access, but the suggestion that it is possible to > limit to or > even prefer open acces material is incompatible with the > policy on > using the best available sources.
Could someone from the Foundation please respond to the idea of contacting universities and content database providers and inviting them to support Wikipedia by making a certain number of log-in IDs available, with the benefit -- to them -- that increased citation of high-quality publications would potentially make these publications visible to a larger audience?
Is this something the Foundation would consider pursuing?
Andreas
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